Quite the swinging little bachelor when he comes to visit his aunt in the Big Apple, my nephew is always game for that particular visit's adventure, patiently and enthusiastically looking forward to whom we might meet and whatever fun we might share (beyond the endless built-in thrill provided by the stairwell of a 5th floor walk-up apartment).
Its swooping matrix of intersecting concrete "flow lines" provide endless amounts of thrilling circulation, but very little usable gallery space on its dynamic, tilting walls.
The Trevi Trio In theory, the fountain is brilliant – a thrilling, endless cascade running over and over into your gaping maw – but the chocolate kind has seen one too many hen dos to seem anything but faintly tawdry.
If the game was a big one, with enormous Sunday crowds and endless roaring, it was thrilling to have been there, but in some fashion you'd also been there alone, nobody else in sight.
Our intolerance, short attention spans and endless acceptance of cheap thrills have left us with a homogenised, middle-of-the-road mainstream and an underground that is at times exciting and fun, but too often exclusive and contrived.
Attachment to artists becomes more fleeting; the emphasis is much more on the listener's pleasure, on the endless chase for the next thrill and the new cool.
Ski touring, once the preserve of hardy mountain types, has seen a growing popularity over the past few seasons with its green credentials (no lifts), offers of endless untracked powder and the thrill of a new challenge.
Less thrilling is the endless drumbeat of ads from long-time sponsors Coca-Cola (since 1928) and McDonald's (since 1976).
It is the town that likes to pride itself on being like no other, where people thrill to possibilities as endless as a Zabar's deli line and revel in problems as ubiquitous as pushcarts.
